Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor of Valles, State of San Luis Potosi, was murdered. General Saturnine Cedillo, boss of San Luis Potosi, appointed another Mayor, but the townspeople resented the dictation, called for a regular election. Fortnight ago, they arranged a meeting to agitate for their rights, invited several hundred Labor sympathizers from Mexico City to attend. Boss Cedillo's men opened fire on the gathering from hotel windows, cafe doors. Throwing up street barricades, the two groups potshot at each other for eight hours, were stopped by the arrival of Federal troops. Four lay dead, several wounded...
...opening volley of a Mexican Right v. Left struggle. Unorganized, Mexican Rightists have been unable to present any formidable opposition to the 42-year-old "social revolution" of President Lazaro Cardenas. But last week, news-wise correspondents saw the Rightists rallying around swarthy-skinned General Cedillo, predicted that Mexico contained the makings of a little Spanish civil...
...Cedillo's heels for months. Their cries of "Fascist" influenced Cardenas in dropping the "Bull of Potosi," General Cedillo, from his Cabinet. Since then, President Cardenas has been trying gingerly to pull Cedillo's political teeth in his home bailiwick. To get the General safely out of Mexico, he offered him the choice of a foreign diplomatic post. "I have no interest in foreign affairs," retorted Cedillo. "I find conditions in Mexico much more interesting...
...economy, actually to remove a possible weapon from Cedillo. The old General countered with the purchase of six fast planes from the U. S., stored a few away on his ranch. Afraid to move against Cedillo because of his private army of over 10,000 men, the last in Mexico, Cardenas has placed encampments of Federal troops on the borders of the State, strung them along the new Pan American highway...
Last week, as a result of the Valles outbreak, Cardenas discarded his gingerly stand, made his first big move to crack down on Cedillo. Four thousand Federal reinforcements were ordered to move into the State. At the same time in Mexico City, Government officers swooped down on a clandestine radio station, allegedly operated by a Cedillo agent...